Sequential Problem Solving

Sequential Problem Solving

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Title: Sequential Problem Solving A Student Handbook with Checklists
for Successful Critical Thinking
Author: Fredric Lozo

Release Date: August 19, 2005 [eBook #16547]
Language: English
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK
SEQUENTIAL PROBLEM SOLVING***
E-text prepared by Frederic Lozo

Copyright (C) 1998 by F. B. Lozo

Introductory Note:
Sequential Problem Solving is written for those with a whole brain
thinking style. It is for those who seek to validate the propriety of when
and under what circumstances they utilize each aspect of their intellect.
Sequential Problem Solving helps those with a logical nature to
develop creative right brain intuitive processes in a way that can be
efficiently utilized by the orderly left brain to develop new solutions to
both old and everyday problems. Included are basic study skills for
high school and college students.
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Sequential Problem Solving:
A STUDENT HANDBOOK
With
Checklists for Successful Critical Thinking.
By
Fredric B. Lozo
Mathis, Texas

Copyright 1998 F.B. Lozo
ISBN 0-9674166-2-0

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION Problem solving checklist flowchart
RESEARCH SKILLS Rapid Reading Memorization PRACTICAL
PROBLEM SOLVING Learning Stream Of Consciousness PROBLEM
SOLVING STEPS Problem Identification as the first step of problem
solving Fact Gathering in problem solving Logic Fallacies Emotional
Fallacies Credibility Fallacies Fact And Opinion Deductive Reasoning
Developing a Solution Time Material Manpower Trying the Solution
Manpower Management Leadership Styles Dealing With Interpersonal
Conflict INTERPERSONAL PROBLEM SOLVING External
Conflicts Internal Conflicts Dealing with the "Unattached" Person
Interpersonal relationships -- Values PROBLEM SOLVING
EVASIONS APPENDIX 1 -- OUTLINE STYLES APPENDIX 2 --
PERSUASIVE ARGUMENT FORM APPENDIX 3 --
ARGUMENTATIVE FALLACIES REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Introduction
We are constantly trying to make some sense of our world and the way
people treat each other. The purpose of this book is to provide a
systematic way of analyzing situations and planning actions.
Sequential Problem Solving is written for those who want to reassure
themselves that their thinking is logically correct rather than
emotionally or impulsively misguided. It provides step by step
procedures for applying computer-like decision making to daily living.
Many ordinary problems involve not only physical, concrete parts but
also interpersonal elements. Thus problem solving involves both the
physical world and the interpersonal world. For instance, when
solutions to physical problems are implemented, the job manager must
decide which of several leadership-managerial styles is appropriate.
Are the workers mature enough and knowledgeable enough to work
together as a team without supervision, or are the workers so immature
and unruly that an authoritarian task master leadership style will be
required, or will the workers need a teacher-leader for some period of

time before they become a team?
The underlying principle, throughout Sequential Problem Solving, is an
obligation to help each other as citizens of a world community, and an
acknowledgement that our real enemy is often ourselves. Our common
problem is understanding ourselves in order to be a friend to others.
Sequential Problem Solving provides us with a way of checking for the
kindness factor in problem solving, with the goal of helping others and
being a good citizen in the world community.
A separate section, Dealing with Unattached People, is devoted to the
problem of neighbors in the world community who are untrustworthy
for some period of time, from the view point that today's enemies are
tomorrow's friends.
Some neighbors in the world community are, from time to time,
untrustworthy. Since opportunities for misunderstanding are greater in
a climate of mistrust, later sections are included that deal with mistrust
and ways that we can gauge interpersonal situations and select an
appropriate leadership style to match it.
Sequential Problem Solving begins with the mechanics of learning and
the role of memorization in learning. The techniques of effective
memorization follow, as well as other important learning skills.
This book contains many step by step checklists, much like pilots use
to make certain that things of importance are not overlooked. These
individual checklists are tied together in a broad flowchart that provides
a sequential decision making pathway. The contents of the checklists
are things that many adults utilize instinctively, without conscious
thought. However these checklist can provide adults with a more
positive way of checking their own thinking, in times of stress, and a
way for students to become instinctive users of sound logic practices.
Teachers may